SSC Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 12:30-2pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Marta Kanashiro, Professor, Journalism Laboratory, and Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Privacy in contemporaneity: a dispute of senses between Brazilian legal debate and social networks

This seminar aims to present different elements of the notion of privacy in Brazilian legal debate and the idea of privacy that predominates in the... Read more about @title...

Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 12:30-2pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Mass Internet Surveillance in Canada after Snowden:academic/activist responses

Andrew Clement, Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Edward Snowden's unprecedented leak of secret documents has revealed the astonishing depth and range of mass state surveillance. Clement will provide an overview of the main internet surveillance programs revealed through the published leaks, particularly as they affect... Read more about @title...

The Surveillance Studies Centre

and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre

present

Manu Luksch, Intermedia Artist, Founding Director of ambientTV.NET

1) A screening of the film Life in The Cloud, Tuesday, March 3, 5.30pm, Agnes Etherington Art Centre Atrium

Life in The Cloud traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As... Read more about @title...

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 12:30-2pm
Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Christian Leuprecht (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Economics, Royal Military College of Canada) and David Skillicorn (Professor, School of Computing, Queen's University)

Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 12:30-2pm, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Laura Pinto (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology)

“Dropping the Elf Bomb”: a frames analysis of media and public surveillance discourse in response to “Elf on the Shelf”

In December 2015, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives published a teaser for an article arguing that the popular Elf on a... Read more about @title...

Charles Stankievech (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto) and David Murakami Wood (Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies, Queen's University)

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 12:30-2:00pm
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Atrium

David Murakami Wood will talk about 'listening' as a surveillance practice, with particular reference to the development of coastal listening stations in the UK (the... Read more about @title...

Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 12h30-14h00, Mackintosh-Corry Hall C512

Adam Molnar and David Murakami Wood, Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University

"Surveillance Studies and the Media: from crafting research to engagement strategies"

Amid a daily stream of news stories on surveillance and privacy, surveillance studies scholars are experiencing a ripe historical moment to intervene in public discussion relating to their research. This informal seminar discusses... Read more about @title...

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 12h30-14h00, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Jeffrey Moon, Academic Director and Data and Government Information Librarian, Queen's University Research Data Centre

At Queen’s, data from several Surveillance Studies Centre research projects have been documented and archived for public access. Learn why this is important and how to access surveys like the Globalization of Personal Data, Privacy and Surveillance, and more.... Read more about @title...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 12h30-14h00, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Josh Lauer, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire

It is often taken for granted that the nation-state played a leading role in the development of modern surveillance. But what about commercial surveillance? This presentation addresses one of the most sophisticated private-sector surveillance networks in American history, credit reporting agencies, and highlights... Read more about @title...

Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 12h30-14h00, Mackintosh-Corry Hall D411

Rachel Dubrofsky, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Departments of Humanities & Cultural Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, University of South Florida

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